Woman missing for 10 days set out for remote Queensland town on foot

By Marissa Calligeros

20 February 2013 — 9:47am

An air search for a north Queensland woman last seen more than a week ago has been called off, but police divers from Brisbane will search dams in the region.

The 23-year-old Kowanyama woman, whose name has not been publicly disclosed, disappeared after leaving a residence at Archer River near Coen - a small inland town on the main road heading up the Cape York Peninsula.

It is believed the woman left the Archer River residence on Sunday, February 10 on foot with the intention of making her way back to the town Kowanyama on the opposite side of the peninsula near the Gulf of Carpentaria.

An extensive air and land search began last Thursday, with State Emergency Service volunteers scouring an area of about 800 square kilometres, including the area around a quarry.

Police divers have been called in to search a number of dams and waterways in the region.